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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] UBIFS: Improve error message when reading superblock failed
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:01:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4219F4.3080005@aribaud.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F420E33.3000002@corscience.de>

Hi Bernhard,

Le 20/02/2012 10:11, Bernhard Walle a ?crit :
> Am 20.02.2012 09:59, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
>>
>> Dry numbers as error messages are better than no error messages but only
>> marginally IMO. Isn't there a way to emit a readable message re malloc
>> instead of emitting an int value?
>
> Well, I'm not familiar with the u-boot codebase. Does u-boot have a
> strerror table? How is it handled on other places? Should an error
> message printed directly before returning -ENOMEM?

I don't think there is an strerror() API. But at least, if the newly 
printed int uses errno values, then instead of '... %d!", you could 
print "... errno=%d", which would give some hint to the reader.

> Regards,
> Bernhard

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-20 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 17:15 [U-Boot] [PATCH] UBIFS: Improve error message when reading superblock failed Bernhard Walle
2012-02-17 14:15 ` Detlev Zundel
2012-02-17 14:31   ` Bernhard Walle
2012-02-17 15:00     ` Detlev Zundel
2012-02-20  8:44     ` Bernhard Walle
2012-02-20  8:59       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-20  9:11         ` Bernhard Walle
2012-02-20 10:01           ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2012-04-02 11:58             ` Thomas Weber
2012-05-15 20:33               ` Thomas Weber
2012-08-09 20:12               ` Wolfgang Denk

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